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| Date: | 03 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 07 10 1929 |
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| Description: | Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium under construction, with three men with a steam shovel clearing trees. 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men drive an International truck up a dirt road along the Colorado River during the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. There is a steam, or po... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men standing with trucks near a steam shovel working near a rock face. |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at men driving dump trucks and operating a steam shovel and a crane below ground level at a construction site. On the opposite s... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View of rubble along an exposed rock face. Construction equipment is in the far distance. |
| Date: | 06 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working outdoors in a rocky area, perhaps a quarry. One man is operating a steam shovel. |
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